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bua-lit at Open Book
Members of the bua-lit collective will be joined by Nomalanga Mkhize on a panel at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town next week. The event, “What are our children reading?” takes place at 12 midday on Wednesday September 4, in the Fugard Studio. In the context of the...
Multilingual textbooks: Some lessons for South Africa from Rwanda and Tanzania
In his keynote address to the recent Litasa conference in July, Professor Leketi Makalela from Wits University outlined a number of ways in which learning materials could support a multilingual pedagogy and translanguaging teaching and learning strategies. He listed...
Critical response to the National Framework for the Teaching of Reading in African Languages
bua-lit response Reading in African langs 7 Aug
Brian Ramadiro’s LITASA Address 2019: Futures of Literacy in African Languages
For those of you who missed Dr Ramadiro's powerful address on 'Futures of Literacy in African Languages' at the recent LITASA conference, here it is for you to read and share.
LITASA 2019 CONFERENCE OPENING ADDRESS by Professor Catherine Kell
Good afternoon everyone! Molweni bantwana, zihlobo noogxa bethu ababekekileyo. Ndiyabulela! Sinamkela ngezandla ezishushu nonke bantu abaphumeleleyo ukuza kuzimasa inkomfa yethu yama - 2019 nangakumbi kuni bantu bathatha inxaxheba ngokunikela iintetho ezimalunga...
